These lists are from The CSS H.L. Hunley, Confederate Submarine, R. Thomas
Campbell, Burd Street Press, 1999.
They were desperate, they risked it all in an effort to defeat the enemy. They paid the ultimate price. Crews lost, may they Rest In Peace, and their names be not forgotten:
29 August 1863 (these first four escaped)
Lt. John Payne, CSN, Commanding, and Lt. Charles H. Hasker, CSN, along with two other seamen eascaped.
15 October 1863
None escaped. May they Rest In Peace.
17 February 1864. The last crew, who made their kill, and all went to the bottom of the Atlantic.
None escaped. May they Rest In Peace, and their names be not forgotten. 1"Confederate Farewell," Nashua (NH) Telegraph Sunday 16 April 2004, page A-2, mentions a descendant of Joseph Ridgaway, born on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Emma Busbey Ditman. |
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